Clause 8
Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Bill
5:15 pm
Tom Levitt (PPS (Rt Hon Hilary Benn, Secretary of State), Department for International Development; High Peak, Labour)
I rise to make a brief contribution, having read clause 8 in some depth. I apologise to my hon. Friend the Minister for not giving him notice of this question, but he will appreciate why it might be particularly relevant to his constituency and mine. Do the words “local government” in the clause refer to national park boundaries, given that national parks are arms of local government? My hon. Friend and I both have an interest in the boundaries of a particular national park, because we have adjacent constituencies, albeit with no road passing over the boundary between us.